The Lacuna Project

lacuna (n.) a gap in a record where something should be

Independent research. Not affiliated with any government, agency, or company.

University

Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University

Findings that rest on exhibits naming this entity

  • AGR-5.15: The Gates and Rockefeller foundations announced AGRA in September 2006 with a first investment of $150 million, $100 million of it from Gates, for the Program for Africa's Seed Systems. A July 2020 Tufts University working paper, not peer reviewed and supported by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, reported maize yields up 29 percent over 12 years, staple crop yields up 18 percent and undernourishment up 30 percent in AGRA's 13 countries.
  • AGR-5.16: AGRA answered critics in 2020 that the Tufts undernourishment analysis was "deeply flawed," that its headline goals had not changed, and that it is "not involved in loan schemes."

Exhibits naming this entity

  • Exhibit 640 July 2020. Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University (Timothy A. Wise): Failing Africa's Farmers: An Impact Assessment of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (GDAE Working Paper 20-01)
  • Exhibit 642 2020 (letter printed as 1 September 2020). Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (as published by U.S. Right to Know): Letter from Andrew Cox, AGRA Chief of Staff and Strategy, to PELUM-Zambia, BIBA-Kenya and HOMEF (with the 7 September 2020 request and the 7 October 2020 reply)